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02 Contract Notice

Eye-Care Digitisation for NHS Wales

  • First published: 03 June 2019
  • Last modified: 03 June 2019

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Contents

Summary

OCID:
ocds-kuma6s-092677
Published by:
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)
Authority ID:
AA0221
Publication date:
03 June 2019
Deadline date:
01 July 2019
Notice type:
02 Contract Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
No

Abstract

The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board who are seeking to establish a contract for Eye-Care Digitisation for NHS Wales. CPV: 72222300, 72222300.

Full notice text

Contract notice

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name and addresses

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership

Procurement Department, Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board, Brecknock House, 8th Floor, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park,

Cardiff

CF14 4XW

UK

Telephone: +44 02920746363

E-mail: emma.lane@wales.nhs.uk

NUTS: UKL

Internet address(es)

Main address: http://www.procurement.wales.nhs.uk

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0221

I.2) Joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body

I.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:

www.etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk


Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address


Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:

www.etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk


I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

I.5) Main activity

Health

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title

Eye-Care Digitisation for NHS Wales

Reference number: CAV-OJEU-PROJECT40225

II.1.2) Main CPV code

72222300

 

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board who are seeking to establish a contract for Eye-Care Digitisation for NHS Wales.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

72222300

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UKL

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

The need for a digital record for eye care is well recognized in the UK and internationally as a requirement for modern ophthalmic care. Hospital based Ophthalmology is second only to radiology in its use of images to manage patient care and it is the second highest volume outpatient service. Eye care digitisation supports NHS Wales’s strategic direction of providing appropriate care closer to home, supporting people to maintain their independence by reducing sight loss and the burden of blindness as well as meeting the quadruple aim. The Welsh Government's Together for Health: Eye Health Care Delivery Plan for Wales 2013-2020 has as one its ten priorities, the digitisation of eye care, both referral and Electronic Patient Record (EPR), as a key enabler for the improved performance and delivery on the planned care pathways for eye care.

The lack of an EPR is impeding achievement of capacity and demand balance for eye care, compromising patient safety and missing opportunities to deliver cost savings by skill mix. Without EPR functionality, the Health Board Eye Care Plans will not be deliverable, and patients will not receive timely, prudent care. A vital part of the Eye Health Care Plan is the digitisation of Eye Services. This is an essential enabler to improving integration, and accessing and sharing information. An EPR is required to allow the hospital clinicians and community optometrists to electronically record and access information relating to patients in order to speed up and improve treatment. A key element of this will be to enable the transfer of treatment from hospital settings (currently unable to meet demand) to community settings where clinically appropriate. This can only be achieved effectively through an electronic system. Paper-based systems impede the service redesign needed to manage the patient safely and efficiently.

Referral from Optometry practices to hospital eye services is essential to connect the whole system and provide the ability for safe, timely referrals between Optometrists in the community and hospital eye services, reducing the need for some patients to be referred at all. The introduction of the EPR will enable the expansion of “shared care”, where the NHS and community optometry practices will share a patient record system, to avoid delay and duplication. Information on the treatment of the patient will be available to all appropriate staff, wrapping care around the patient and avoiding duplication of diagnostic tests. It will provide secure access for Optometry practices into the NHS Wales network, utilising commercial access software. The model developed will allow Optometrists to enter patient data for those receiving “shared care” directly into the EPR as the prime source of data collection, which can then also be viewed by the hospital eye service and vice versa. This digital model also supports the national guidance on Ophthalmic Diagnosis and Treatment Centre (ODTC), providing comprehensive diagnosis and management based on multidisciplinary working. It will also support the development and rollout of regional working to make the whole system more resilient.

NHS Wales are looking to work with a partner with a proven track record of supporting integrated health organisations successfully delivering sustained transformational improvement in this domain, with the demonstrable experience to ensure a first class healthcare solution is delivered. To this end, NHS Wales will be offering a supplier day on the 5th June which has been advertised in the Pior Information Notice (PIN) earlier this month. Should you wish to attend, you will need to email emma.lane@wales.nhs.uk with your attendee contact details.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Duration in months: 7

This contract is subject to renewal: Yes

Description of renewals:

with option to extend for a further three month period at the Health Board's sole discretion in monthly intervals.

II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited

II.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: No

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1) Conditions for participation

III.1.2) Economic and financial standing

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents


III.1.3) Technical and professional ability

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents


III.2) Conditions related to the contract

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

IV.2) Administrative information

IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number in the OJ S:

2019/S 091-219128

IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date: 01/07/2019

Local time: 14:00

IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

EN

IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders

Date: 01/07/2019

Local time: 14:00

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: No

VI.3) Additional information

Please note additional information on this procurement:

1. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to award the contract in whole, in part or annul the tendering process and not award any contract.

2. Bidders should note that they will be required to enter into terms and conditions of contract as set out in the ITT and that save for matters of clarification or consistency the Contracting Authority will not negotiate the terms.

3. The Contracting Authority will not accept completed ITT's after the stated closing date.

4. All documents to be priced (where applicable) in sterling and all payments made in sterling.

5. All tender costs and liabilities incurred by bidders shall be the sole responsibility of the bidders.

6. Prospective suppliers should note that NHS Shared Services Partnership - Procurement Services is acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board.

7. Bidders wishing to participate should visit the Bravo e-tenderwales portal and access itt_74940

NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=92677

(WA Ref:92677)

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership

Cardiff

UK

VI.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board will allow a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period between notifying the award decision and awarding the contract.

Unsuccessful tenderers and applicants are entitled to receive reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the tenderer/applicant was unsuccessful. Should additional information be required it should be requested of the addressee in section I.1. Aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by breach of the procurement rules have the right to take action in the High Court (England and Wales). Any such action is subject to strict time limits in accordance with the Public Contracts (Amendments) Regulations 2015.

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

31/05/2019

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
72222300 Information technology services Information systems or technology strategic review and planning services

Delivery locations

ID Description
1017 Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot
1022 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
1015 Central Valleys (Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf)
1013 Conwy and Denbighshire
1020 East Wales
1023 Flintshire and Wrexham
1016 Gwent Valleys (Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly)
1012 Gwynedd
1011 Isle of Anglesey
1021 Monmouthshire and Newport
1024 Powys
1014 South West Wales (Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion)
1018 Swansea
1000 WALES
1010 West Wales and The Valleys

Alert region restrictions

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ID Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

Document family

Notice details
Publication date:
03 June 2019
Deadline date:
01 July 2019 00:00
Notice type:
02 Contract Notice
Authority name:
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)
Publication date:
30 October 2023
Notice type:
03 Contract Award Notice - Successful Supplier(s)
Authority name:
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)

About the buyer

Main contact:
emma.lane@wales.nhs.uk
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

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